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TOOELE, Utah — A school bus collided with a truck Tuesday afternoon, injuring three people, including two students, according to the Tooele City Police Department. At approximately 1:30 p.m., officers were dispatched to 725 North Main Street following reports of the crash. Authorities said a southbound truck had stopped for a pedestrian crossing when the school bus, traveling behind, rear-ended the vehicle with significant force. The impact was strong enough to cause pieces of metal from the truck to strike the bus’s front windshield. The driver of the truck, a 46-year-old man from West Valley, was transported to a local…

RIVERDALE, Utah — Two children were safely recovered hours after an AMBER Alert was issued when their father, suspected of homicide and arson, allegedly abducted them following a deadly fire in Weber County. The incident unfolded late on a Friday afternoon when the Riverdale Fire Department responded to a house fire at the Riverdale Manufactured Home Community, located at 5100 South 1050 West. Upon extinguishing the blaze, firefighters discovered the body of a woman inside the home. Authorities later confirmed the victim was the children’s mother, but the whereabouts of her two young children and their father, Ricardo Rojel Trujillo,…